• Minimum: words,URLs

• Next level: page titles, file size, mod date

• Very useful: meta keywords, descriptions (or page extract)

• Other options: word position on page (allows phrase searching, relevance ranking), parent tag for relevance ranking

• Stopwords reduce index size, but confuse searchers

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Thunderlizard Web Design World
Seattle, July 19, 1999

Avi Rappoport: Search Tools Consulting
www.searchtools.com